I woke up with a horrible headache . I couldn’t remember much of my dream, but then again, why would I want to remember my dream if some of them are memories of my old self. I got up, took a shower, grabbed some breakfast, then I headed towards Twilight’s castle.
When I arrived at the door and was about to knock, Twilight opened it and said, “Eric, what do you have to say for yourself? Altering my mind to suit you.”
I sighed and said as I walked past her, “I’m guessing that you’re really pissed at me about doing that. I recall that I didn’t do it on purpose and it was Spike that agreed with me, you could read about it in the books that I wrote months ago.” I headed into the library and picked up the books and started flipping through them.
Once I found what I was looking for, I quoted, “As Twilight was busy getting the tea ready, I asked Spike if Twilight was good to be an assistant. He shrugged his shoulder and said, “I guess”...”
I was about to read more, but Twilight teleported the journal out of my hooves and said, “I get it, but that doesn’t mean I would like to do some lazy pony’s calendar for appointments and work times. By the way, you do know that you shouldn’t bang your head into a wall for a long time, might get a concussion, or at most, break or damage your horn.”
I rolled my eyes and said, “what to do prefer I should do when i act on instinct or some old habit that I have forgotten, place a hoof on my face? I’m not lazy, I just can’t remember times of stuff.”
She waved her hoof and said, “It’s almost the same thing. The point is that I didn’t like to do your work.”
I held my hooves up and said, “Robot. Let’s tweak your personality since there might be a problem with it. How do you feel and why?”
Twilight stood there and said, “I feel angry because of you taking control of me without permission, scared because you might do it again and that you would make me do something horrible for your own benefit.”
I nodded and said, ”Sit down in the chair. Did these feelings happen recently or did it happen for a while?”
Twilight said as she sat down, “It started a few months ago, while you were in the hospital. I started to have nightmares of you chasing me into the throne room, and taking control of me and ponyville. I would wake up and dismiss it, but a little bit of me thought that since it felt so real, that it was my memories. Then when the truth about you was revealed. I grew angry that you wanted to overthrow Celestia and scared about how you were going to do it. Then, when you control me, it grew worse.”
I nodded and said, “You’ll forget about the dream and all the feeling about it, but you’ll remember me accidentally making you my assistant and feeling connected to that. Awake.”
Twilight shook her head, looked around and said, “You did it again didn’t you?”
I nodded and said, “I just wanted to check if you were okay, and how did you know I was at the door.”
Twilight looked surprised and said, “Oh, that’s easy, I put a tracker on you.”
I looked at her like she just said that she made a bomb, confused, shocked, and a little scared. I shook my head and said, “Um, can you repeat that?”
Twilight said as if it was nothing more than levitation, “I put a tracker on you so I now where you are at all times. Come I’ll show you.”
I followed her to the throne room, she powered up the map to show that my cutie mark was hovering above Ponyville. I looked at her and said, “I don’t know whether to be impressed or scared. If you can do this, so can Celestia.”
Twilight looked up as if she was thinking about it and said, “Maybe, but I don’t think she have did it yet.”
I thought about how to approach this, I needed to make sure, but I can’t just message Celestia and ask her if she has a tracker on me. Then it hit me, Luna, she has been with Celestia, so she should know if I’m being tracked or not. I turned to Twilight and said, “Can you teach me the spell?”
After Twilight told me about the spell, I grew a bit worried. For the spell to work, I need something that the one, that I want to track, holds precious. I can’t remember ever having something precious to me. Twilight must have known what I was think. She said as she headed out of the throne room, “It was simple, the one thing that you hold precious is the ponies that are close to you, and that would be your friends.”
I thought about it. It was possible that I feel that my friends are precious. I looked over the list of ponies still under my control. Almost all of them are my friends. I looked up at Twilight and said, “Is there anything that is precious to Celestia, besides ponies of Equestria, Luna or her pet?”
Twilight started walking around, lost in thought, then she said as she turned around quickly that I jumped, “I got it, her crown. When I was young, I took her crown and looked for it, then when she found it, she told me that it was worth more than her life. It’s basically a symbol of power. “
I nodded and said, “How do you think I should do this take it and cast the spell, control Luna and tell her to get for me, or maybe I should do the spell in front of her and make her curious why I placed a tracker on her.”
Twilight sighed and said, “Forget it, you’re acting like Pinkie, only more sarcastic.”
I turned towards the door and said, “Take off the tracker, I like to be alone sometimes.” I walked out of the throne room with Twilight calling after me to stop, but I didn't. I just wanted to be left alone to figure out what is going on. In two or three days, my ordinary life was spun around and now I’m an evil mind control pony that had lost his memory, and everypony is fine with that.
I was in the park, when I heard voices calling out for me. I turned around to tell them to leave me alone, but that died in my throat. Right behind me was the crusaders, Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle. I haven’t figured out why I can’t tell them to leave me alone, then again, I can’t tell Pinkie to leave me alone, I could, but she wouldn’t listen. I sat down, they came up and Scootaloo said, “Why aren’t you at work, Mr. and Mrs. Cake won’t let us in the back.”
I smiled and said, “Didn’t you forget to clean up last time you were in there. I have enough to deal with, so I wouldn’t want to get in trouble and maybe lose my job.”
Applebloom got up on the bench and said, “ We promised that we'd clean up this time, but they still said no.”
I sighed and said, “If they say no, then I can’t go against them, they are my bosses.“
Sweetie sat down on the other side of me and said as she pouted, “Please, just this once.”
I looked away and wished that she would remember what I did. They know how to get to me. I got up and said, “I have some work to do at home. Sorry, but I not going to work today. It’s my day off as well. Don't you have work to do. Applebloom, I think Applejack needs you. Sweetie, the same for your sister. Scootaloo, why don’t you visit Rainbow?”
They looked at each other and headed in their own direction. I got up and was about to start heading in a different, when someone called me. I sighed and turned around to see Octavia walking towards me. I said as I turn back around, “Hey, Octavia, nice to see you, but I’m not in the mood for talking.
Octavia ran in front of me and said while catching her breath, “Will you stop think of yourself for once and listen. I need to sit down.”
She sat down and as she was catching her breath, I said, “Robot, be quick about it, what’s this about?”
She said with her head down, “Twilight has an idea about your problem”
I sighed and said, “I want you to head back to Twilight and say that I’m busy, then carry on with business, like Twilight didn’t ask you for anything today.” She nodded and took off back to Twilight’s, then I headed home to get away from everyone.